BLOOMBERG: If New Yorkers Want To Kill Themselves With Sugar, That's Their Right

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BLOOMBERG: If New Yorkers Want To Kill Themselves With Sugar, That's Their Right

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that if New Yorkers want to kill themselves with sugar — that's their right.That was the mayor's response Monday to a small, peaceful protest rally against a ban on big sodas on a sidewalk near City Hall Park — dubbed The Million Big Gulp March.

All the recent news surrounding Mayor Bloomberg's soda ban has left a lot of people talking about an infringement of personal rights. But compared to Singapore's notorious limitations, our soda law is small potatoes.
Singapore law is full of odd restrictions on personal acts, some of which are comical in their absurdity and others threatening in their limitations.

Re: BLOOMBERG: If New Yorkers Want To Kill Themselves With Sugar, That's Their Right

"I do not claim that every incident in the history of empire can be explained in directly economic terms. Economic interests are filtered through a political process, policies are implemented by a complex state apparatus, and the whole system generates its own momentum."

Re: BLOOMBERG: If New Yorkers Want To Kill Themselves With Sugar, That's Their Right

Are the absurd laws in Singapore to show what will happen if Americans don't stop their elected officials from enacting laws that infringe on our personal freedoms?

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"